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Trial by fire: new librarians as team teachers.

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| December 22, 2004 | Gerrard, Angie; Knoch, Jessica | COPYRIGHT 2004 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

New librarians are often thrown into library instruction with little or no formal training. Team teaching is one method that can be adopted by new librarians to ease them into their instructional duties while still delivering a quality information literacy program. As new librarians, the authors used a team-teaching mentoring partnership to deliver an instructional program to over 400 students.

Introduction

Team teaching has become an acceptable teaching method in librarianship. There are many examples in the literature where team teaching has been successfully implemented in various disciplines, including education, communications, ...

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